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Thursday, January 13, 2005

Burning the candle at both ends again

Going to be getting up at 06:30 tomorrow. Who knows if I'll be teaching this class for the last day tomorrow, or if the mother of this lady teacher is going to be needing care for longer.

These kids pose the biggest disciplin problem I've faced so far.

I'm going to be reading up on how to manage class room discipline this week end. And I'll be reading Ms. Frizzle's blog.

Have got to get some sleep. In the meantime, to liven your internet reading time, I leave you with a story of a bounty hunter who set out to make an elite organization of bounty hunters. His name is Joshua Armstrong.

The music for tomorrow is either Rachmaninoff or Chopin. The color is pine green. The goddess of the day is Freya. The book of the day is The Two Towers, by J.R.R. Tolkien. And the car of the day is an Austen Mini.

You are the Gender Abolitionist type of feminist. This means that you
feel the best way to destroy patriarchal oppression is to rid ourselves
of misguided gender roles, and instead live in a society that does not
make such marked assumptions about gender differences. The Gender
Abolitionist is culturally radical, but rather conservative when it
comes to sexual liberation and politics. You have a strong sense of
human rights for all. In fact, you are actually a very moral person.
You don't see people in terms of gender and are thus very philosophical
in order to perceive the world in such a manner. You think people
shouldn't identify others in terms of gender. When most people see a
person, the first thing they think is "That person is a woman" or "That
person is a man", but they do NOT think "That person is a
short-fingernail". Most make someone's gender their IDENTITY, but
fingernail length would never be considered part of their identity. A
gender abolitionist would claim gender should be like fingernail
length--it shouldn't be part of someone's identity. By making gender a
part of identity, difference is emphasized and oppression is often
justified. Thus, gender shouldn't be regarded to such a large extent by
society. You are mostly concerned with seeing women become fully
equalized with men by eliminating gender roles, as these roles oppress
women.